Thursday, 15 October 2009

Rouenhas been dubbed the "City of a Hundred Spires," for many of its important edifices are churches. Towering above them all is the highest spire in France, erected in 1876, a cast-iron tour-de-force rising 490 ft above theCathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen. Claude Monet immortalized Rouen's cathedral facade in his paintings.